Unless I'm missing something, it shouldn't matter if you put just one city from SA in or all 3. Only a part of each city is loaded into memory at a time, anyways, so it shouldn't make a difference. The qeustion is if R* can fit enough stuff into 8MB of PSP RAM for all of the things in SA to work, or if it will have to be something greatly simplified having only the cities themselves be in common with the SA.

Right now, my prediction is that the PSP GTA games will be very similar to GTA3 with maybe a few things from Vice. The texture resolution and detail of the models will be greatly reduced, but because of the smaller screen graphics will not apear noticably worse.

I mean that PSP only has 8MB of the system RAM on it, compared to 32MB on PS2. I wasn't trying to say that it is some sort of special RAM by saying "PSP RAM", just the fact that it is RAM on a PSP system. Sorry for any confusion caused.

Edit: Cool picture of portable XB. I'm suprised that M$ hasn't announced a portable gaming system yet. With all of the money they put into Tablet PCs and Pocket PCs, they are allready half way there.

Precisely. I'm suprised they only put in 8MB. Dynamic RAM is cheap, usualy. Signifficantly cheaper than flash, anyways, so making it 32MB to match PS2 couldn't have raised the price of the unit by more than $5-$10 USD. I don't believe there would be any problems with other components, at least not with CPU, which is the most important part, and 32MB of RAM can be "packaged" into one chip, so it wouldn't take up more physical space in the case than 8MB of RAM. Perhaps, it is a marketing scheme, an attempt to get us to pay more money for an upgrade later.

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they put 8mb in for the same reason they put a 32mb in the ps2 its makes the most sence im sure if they wanted to they could put hella alot more even as a upgrape, but its simply for the creators sake they wont make an upgrade for the psp/ ps2 becase the creators would have to make differnt versions of the game depending on how much ram u have.

Even the dynamic RAM uses so little power that it doesn't compare to how much CPU, GPUs, LCD screen, and other components use combined. Furthermore, if the memory isn't used, it doesn't draw power at all. So the games that can get away with 8MB RAM would use up the same ammount of power whether the system had 8MB or 32MB of RAM.